As part of the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City May 4-8, Artists Alliance is pleased to announce its 15th annual building-wide open studios on May 7th and 8th. During this exciting event, over 35 contemporary artists will open their Lower East Side studios, providing a unique opportunity for art enthusiasts to see a diverse range of artwork on display in the artists’ own studios. Additionally, this offers the public a rare look into the artists’ creative process with the artists present to answer questions. All conveniently located within the same building, the artwork on view during the open studios will present a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, printmaking, works on paper, photography, installation, video and new media. Artworks will also be available for sale.

Participating Artists (Studios located on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors)

Nadia Ayari, Itziar Barrio, Linda Byrne, Pam Cardwell, Paul Clay, Silvio DelaCruz, Charley Friedman, David K. Friedman, Nancy Friedemann, Eileen Elizabeth Smith Grant, Robert Grant, Linda Griggs, Allen Hansen, Lisa Hanson, Kylie Heidenheimer, Michael Katchen, Tine Kindermann, Lisa Lebofsky, Chang-Jin Lee, Wayne Liu, David Mahler, Bill Massey, Jen Mazza, Bill Mutter, Selime Okuyan, Nicole Parcher, Mark Power, David Pushkin, Rafael Rosario-Laguna, Flavia Souza, Sherman J. Sussman, Suzanne Varni, Melanie Vote

Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program: Spring 2011 Artists-in-Residence (4th floor)

Louise Barry, Noa Charuvi, Hong Seon Jang, Judy Simonian

AAI’s Open Studios are part of The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations working together to harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore ideas that will shape it. The Festival will include a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events. For more information, visit festivalofideasnyc.com.